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Do you know any outdated expressions we still use?
DIAL the telephone. Even with a push button phone we still say "dial" the number. ROLL the window down on your car. They are push button but we still say ROLL as old car windows went down with rollers. Do you know of any other expressions that we still use that are based on old technology? Thanks.
13 Answers
- robert2020Lv 73 months agoFavourite answer
"Put that in the icebox". Meaning the fridge. Even though born in the 1950s, we never had an icebox.
And of course, "dial the phone". No body says, 'key in the number'
Source(s): Phone companies and businesses started saying, "key in the number" in the 1970s. But it never caught on - wernerslaveLv 51 month ago
I still say, "Dial this number" when the dial has been gone for decades now.
- Anonymous3 months ago
Calling a movie a film
- Lorenzo SteedLv 73 months ago
How about "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" since almost all clocks are now digital
- thomas fLv 73 months ago
"Turn on the light"--My grandfather told me that the earliest electrical switches were actually turned.
- Anonymous3 months ago
Tape it when talking about recording things
